The Travel Franchise

The Travel Franchise enables anyone to switch careers and launch a home-based travel agency, even with no prior travel experience whatsoever.

98 % of its franchisees have never worked in travel before and two thirds have never run their own business. Yet with expert training, a dedicated support structure and an award-winning business model behind them, they consistently succeed in building real businesses that generate real income and give them a genuinely different quality of life.

Franchisees earn industry-leading commissions by planning and booking holidays for their clients through a network of over 450 travel suppliers. They keep up to 75 % of the commission they generate, one of the most competitive splits in the industry.

The average booking generates around £400 in commission. With consistent effort a part-time franchisee can earn £40,000 a year. Full-time franchisees regularly earn over £100,000. Some have built multi-million pound businesses, and the infrastructure that makes all of this possible is in place from the very first day.

The business is backed by celebrity brand ambassadors TV broadcaster Eamonn Holmes OBE and double Olympic champion Daley Thompson CBE, both of whom attend company events and retreats, lending the brand a level of credibility and reach that most franchise opportunities simply cannot match.

With over twenty years in the market and more than 750 successful travel consultants currently building businesses through the model, The Travel Franchise is the most proven and established travel franchise opportunity in the UK.

Awards and accolades include:

• Best Lifestyle Franchise worldwide and Best European Franchise at the Global Franchise Awards 2025 and 2026, two consecutive years
• Britain’s Best Home Based Franchise 2024
• Number ten in the Top 100 UK Franchise leaderboard, the only travel franchise in the top 100 and ahead of major brands including Vodafone
• Homeworking Agency of the Year, won over ten times
• Luxury Travel Homeworking Business of the Year

Travel consultants operate under the consumer-facing Not Just Travel brand. They are given a complete business in a box from day one. The infrastructure, technology, supplier relationships, marketing tools and back office support are all in place the moment they join. The franchisee’s job is to build relationships, find customers and grow their client base. Everything else is handled.

Why Choose The Travel Franchise?

The Travel Franchise stands apart from every other travel franchise in the UK in several important and measurable ways. It is the only travel franchise in the top ten of the entire UK franchise rankings. It is the only travel franchise to offer two fully funded overseas mentorship retreats as a standard part of the package, not as a reward or an add-on but as a core part of how franchisees are developed. It also offers a Money-Back Challenge: a genuine contractual commitment that if an Elite franchisee earns a set commission level in year one, the entire initial franchise investment is refunded in full.

The technology investment sets it apart further. Every franchisee gets free access to the TProfile quotation tool, which creates visually stunning interactive client proposals that significantly increase booking conversion rates.

They also get NJT Smart AI, a platform built specifically for travel consultants that combines the premium features of leading AI tools like ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini in a single place, saving franchisees up to £300 a month in tool subscriptions and giving them a genuine competitive edge in marketing, social media and client communication.

The buying power is unmatched in the homeworking travel sector. Through the partnership with the Hays Travel Independence Group, The Travel Franchise wields over £1 billion in annual buying power, giving franchisees access to hundreds of main operators, thousands of additional suppliers and trade-only products never available to consumers booking direct. This means franchisees can consistently offer clients better choice, better protection and often better pricing than anything they can find online.

The Lite Mentorship Programme

The Lite Mentorship Programme starts from the equivalent of £28 a week and is the most accessible way into the travel industry currently available anywhere in the UK. It is designed specifically for people who want to build a business gradually, part time, without giving up their existing income or lifestyle.

Every Lite consultant is personally paired from day one with one of twenty hand-picked experienced travel professionals. Both earn commission on every booking that completes.

Early results from the programme have been extraordinary, with one consultant generating over £81,000 in sales in her first two and a half months, including a £50,488 booking for a complex international itinerary.

“I can highly recommend the Lite package. Working with an experienced consultant from day one is great. A really great way to start a travel business.”

– Jo, Lite Consultant

The Elite Package

The Elite package at £14,995 plus VAT is the flagship and the most complete version of the business. It includes intensive five-day training, a dedicated Business Consultant, two fully funded overseas retreats, the Money-Back Challenge which gives you the chance to get your initial franchise investment refunded if you hit a set level of commission in your first year, and the entire technology suite.

For anyone ready to build something serious and significant it is the strongest travel franchise opportunity in the UK today and one of the strongest lifestyle franchise opportunities of any kind.

“There’s no way we could have built our company from scratch if we hadn’t bought a franchise. We have grown our business on our terms, at our pace, and now have a brilliant lifestyle.”

– Colman and Rachael Coyne, Travel Consultants

Key Features:

• Live virtual five-day training with immediate access to booking systems and the ability to start earning from day one
• Full technology suite including Vision CRM, iSell booking platform, TProfile quotation tool and NJT Smart AI, all provided completely free
• Access to ABTA and ATOL protected holidays across millions of options from short city breaks to six-figure luxury itineraries
• Over £1 billion in annual holiday buying power through the Hays Travel Independence Group
• Access to 450 main travel suppliers and thousands more including trade-only providers unavailable to the public
• Dedicated Business Consultant providing one-to-one ongoing mentoring, coaching and practical business support throughout the journey
• Head office operations team with over 1,000 years of combined experience handling all ticketing, schedule changes and travel admin
• Partners in Travel programme to build client bases through partnerships with local businesses, charities, schools and clubs
• Two fully funded overseas mentorship retreats in luxury destinations included in the Elite package as standard
• Money-Back Challenge on the Elite package -reach a set level of commission in your first year and your initial franchise investment is refunded, giving you the very real possibility of building a business that pays for itself.
• Celebrity brand ambassador support from Eamonn Holmes OBE and Daley Thompson CBE